Komaggas

Komaggas
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Coordinates: 29°48′S 17°30′E / 29.8°S 17.5°E / -29.8; 17.5Coordinates: 29°48′S 17°30′E / 29.8°S 17.5°E / -29.8; 17.5
Country	South Africa
Province	Northern Cape
District	Namakwa
Municipality	Nama Khoi
Established	1828
Government
• Councillor	Jacobus Goedeman (Democratic Alliance)
Area [1]
• Total	2.59 km2 (1.00 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	3,116
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	2.4%
• Coloured	95.6%
• Indian/Asian	0.8%
• White	0.4%
• Other	0.7%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	96.7%
• Sign language	1.0%
• Other	2.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	8242
PO box	8242
Area code	027

Komaggas is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Settlement 40 km south-west of Springbok and 45 km north of Soebatsfontein, on the , a tributary of the . Founded as a station of the London Missionary Society in 1829, it was taken over by the Rhenish Missionary Society in 1843 and by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1936. The name is variously explained as ‘abundance of maws of animals’ and ‘place of many wild olive-trees’; the latter explanation is probably correct.^[2]

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